"Janette's Pier"

"Evening Calm"

As you can see the ocean is fairly flat in surfing lingo so it lead to slowing the shutter speed down to created that milky look as the waves rolled to shore. Also this is the Outer Banks newest fishing pier in Nags Head. "The Jannette's Pier concrete pilings and the first wind mills on the Atlantic Ocean.

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"Transformation"

"From Camera Raw to Aperture 3 to CS5"

Here is another landscape image from a couple of evenings ago. I decided to post the three images to show where it started to the final image. The key was the gray scale conversion in the second image which set up the rich colors in the final print.

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"Endless Summer"

It's so good to have an evening off to shoot for the pure fun of photography. I have to honestly say I don't know of any other place that I would rather live than here on the Outer Banks. So Pea Island was the location as the sun began it's decent for the day. The wind blown sand, the rolling texture of the dunes, the small sand fence that still remains exposed, the clouds falling towards the west as the suns warmth reflects off the east side, what a way to end a great day on our island. Thank you God for your perfect art work.

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"The Art of Photography"

Once again shooting families enjoying our beaches is pure fun. Normally I don't post shots of myself but this one is too cool. Captured by my assistant during our evening client session a couple of nights back. My assistant just got her new camera and I set it up for her and she followed my settings as we went thru our shoot. She has a raw talent for composition and that is special in our business of photography. Then I showed her some editing techniques to start off with and this was her shot on the left and the exact image I shot of our client as she shot me. What made her image special to me is not just the sky which was a given but she nailed my flash going off making this image, as well as the cool sand sculptures on the left.

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"Good Morning"

Morning Sea Oats

Our morning began with a very impressive giant red ball sunrise as it made it's way thru a layer of clouds on the horizon. As I was cruising along the beach road I found these three sea oats atop the dunes overlooking the ocean. As you can tell this is not the original shot to say. It is but with a few strokes in the PS (photoshop) darkroom I wanted to create a more or less artsy image and wa-la here is the outcome.

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